Hans & Basti wurden von Iulian gefunden, auf dem Rückweg von einem Transport.
Allen konnten wir leider nicht helfen, aber die beiden Jungs hatten Glück, sie durften mit in unsere sichere Island of Hope!
Hans ist anfangs noch etwas scheu, nachdem er sich eingewöhnt hat ist er aber ein sehr lieber Kerl! Bald wird er auch an der Leine gehen können!
Wer möchte diesem hübschen Bub ein Zuhause schenken?
Hans & Basti were found by Iulian, on the way back from a transport.
Unfortunately, we couldn't help them all, but the two guys were lucky, the were allowed to come in to our safe Island of Hope!
Hans is a bit shy at the beginning, after getting accustomed he is a very nice guy! Soon he will be able to walk on a leash too!
Who wants to give this pretty boy a home?


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Q: Matching legend to plot points in R Manhattan Plots I am creating a Manhattan plot in R, where my aim is to highlight SNPs based on the trait they relate to.
Here is the tail of my main dataframe (gwas_plot):
              SNP CHR        BP         P
58008  rs77855001   1 249213034 8.665e-01
58009  rs74322942   1 249218520 7.437e-01
58010 rs114152373   1 249222547 6.504e-02
58011  rs11205304   1 149906423 4.000e-23
58012  rs11205305   1 149906433 2.000e-16
58013   rs1061956   1 149914327 4.000e-06

I have another dataset (gwascat_topsnp) which contains a subset of the SNPs in gwas_plot, with a description included.  It looks like this:
         SNP CHR        BP     P            Description
1 rs11205301   1 149906412 4e-23                 Height
2 rs11205301   1 149906412 2e-16                 Height
3  rs1061954   1 149914353 4e-06 Obesity-related Traits

I altered the source code for the manhattan plot (original source code found here: https://github.com/stephenturner/qqman/tree/master/R), at a particular section which allows you to highlight specific SNPs.  I altered it so that the pch would be unique for each "Description" category (in the above data frame).
This is the section I added:
  keyword2=gwascat_topsnp$Description
# Highlight2: highlight snps from a second character vector
  if (!is.null(highlight2)) {
    if (any(!(highlight2 %in% d$SNP))) warning("You're trying to highlight SNPs that don't exist in your results.")
    d.highlight2=d[which(d$SNP %in% highlight2), ]
    with(d.highlight2, points(pos, logp, col="red1", pch=1:24[as.factor(keyword2)], ...))
  }

So here is the code that I use to plot the Manhattan plot:
par(xpd=T, mar=par()$mar+c(0,0,3,0))
manhattan_KB(gwas_plot,col=c("grey"),highlight=gwas_main[rownum,1],highlight2=gwascat_topsnp$SNP)
    par(xpd=TRUE)
    legend(0,40,legend=levels(as.factor(keyword2)),
           col=c("red1"),pch=1:24[as.factor(keyword2)],
           bty="n",cex=0.8,ncol=1,horiz=F)
    par(mar=c(5,4,4,2) + 0.1)

However, in the output seen here, both SNPs with the description labelled as "Height" should have the same pch, however they do not:  One of them has a circle and one of them has a triangle, and the other trait remians unlabelled in the legend.
Could someone please help me with where I am going wrong?  If you need any more information I will be happy to provide it.
Thank you!

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Giulia Regain | Riccione, Italy | www.giuliaregain.com
International DJ/Producer/Remixer/Blogger/Cool Hunter
What do you think being creative means?
For me creativity is a gift that must be grasped, that sooner or later we all receive from life for several reasons. There are some who are more susceptible to developing knowledge, there are those who like many artists make it the basis of a job, and there are those who are not afraid to put it into practice…I think that creativity is a starting point to begin an inner journey of discovery, art, originality and evolution. Also, I think it's even more rewarding when you can share your creativity with the world. And it is a point of arrival when it has really helped create something new and evolving for that person or for all people.
How do you include creativity in your life?
Whenever I feel a pleasant idea, accompanied by a positive feeling and energy that makes my body vibrate, "I listen to myself and I apply it into practice"…starting with the simplest things, such as when writing an email, or when deciding my look, etc. to the real projects of my life as it was for "SATIN GIRLS", "SPAPARTY", "THE PERFECT MIX DJ", "UNA VITA DA DEEJAY" and "TECH SEX HOUSE", or for my musical productions and DJ sets, etc.
What thoughts do you have as to how your life has influenced your creative imagination, and how your creative imagination has influenced your life?
My creativity is very svilupata, maybe just because I let it "free to express itself" in my daily life without filters, especially social or stereotypical. It helps me to look to the future and go beyond...I find that creativity and life are "THE PERFECT MIX" to be able to still amaze and surprise oneself.
What, if any, exercises do you do to get into a creative mode?
Sometimes I feel the need to isolate myself, to be in silence, to be in contact with nature, especially seeking the light of the sun or the moon and fresh air, and I have the utmost concentration and devotion to a topic. I also noticed that my mind and my spirit are more creative at night, in absolute silence. But I happen to be very creative even during moments of absolute chaos while amongst people to talk to, and from speech and other reflections, a light bulb turns on inside me. There is no rule, but there is an open mind that seeks, captures from the world and continually monitors.
How important do you think creativity is in life?
I've made it the essence of my life to always have renewed energy, life goals, moments of joy and strength and my personal evolution as an artist, as a deejay and producer, and as a woman. My concept "REGAIN" significa per me "Restart" thanks to a new creative idea, whatever it is and wherever I can bring it...no limits to creativity.
Giulia Regain is an international DJ, producer, remixer and blogger, revered for being at the forefront of DJ technology and product-awareness. She is currently ranked as one of the top 3 female DJs on the French website djette.com. She is also the DJ Ambassador for Pioneer Italy and has been since 2009 when they discovered her in Portugal after winning the Pink Armada "Top Female European DJ Award" and "Best Female Italian DJ".
As a producer and remixer, Giulia has created more than 50 songs on iTunes and Beatport in many genres including electronic, house, progressive, deep, chill out, lounge, and three mix compilations. Her signature style is an international sound that she defines as "ELECTRONIC DANCE mix HOUSE MUSIC" with inspiration from the American and Northern European groove. Her first album "FEEL IT" was released on vinyl in 2007.
Her DJ sets are broadcast on various radio frequencies worldwide, on web-radio, and on the emblematic "Soundzrise: the sounds of dawn" program on Italy's #1 music station Radio M2O: www.m2o.it
The early days saw Giluia playing house music vinyl before moving on to creating her own style "Tech Sex House" by switching to Mac and the last generation of CD player, mixer, FX and controllers in the electronic dance/house music radio and clubs. Since then she has played in Italy's best clubs from Riccione to Milan, and on international tours in Ibiza, Mykynos, Miami, New York, Geneva, Greece, Mauritius, Mexico, Portugal, Switzerland, France, Germany, Tunisia, Morocco, Albania, Lithuania, and more…
Besides music, she loves fashion and in 2011 she founded the blog "THE PERFECT MIX DJ" as a DJ and huntress of the hottest trends in a fusion of music, fashion, night life, events, movies, technology, cars, motorcycles, sports, food and drink, wellness, makeup, art, and curiosities. With a style that is a glamorous mixture of Italian and American trends, she is the ambassador for many brands of fashion, hairstyle and make-up, and has performed events for Rolex, Maserati, Mercedes Benz, Campari, Aperol, Martini, Nastro Azzurro, Philip Morris, Golden Point, Levi's Jeans, Bfly Wear and "Fashion Night" in Rome and Milan. She also created the "Spa Party", staging exclusive parties in spas, resorts and luxury hotels, in collaboration with THE SATIN GIRLS SHOW (a live DJ show she created in 2007 based on femininity, elegance and sensuality) and Pioneer: www.spaparty.it
Giulia has worked as a presenter on TV and radio, and as a VJ in concert presentations. She has a background in dance and music, specializing in classical guitar. She is an IT expert and has a degree in Social and Behavioral Sciences (University of Psychology of Cesena, Italy).
In 2013 she opened her YouTube channel "GIULIA REGAIN TV" with the new format "UNA VITA DA DEEJAY". Her motto: "Even in the beating of a butterfly's wings there is music. Just know how to listen."
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Home » Sport » Willian blames Arsenal struggles on changing club and 'new philosophy' but thanks Mikel Arteta for 'support'
Willian blames Arsenal struggles on changing club and 'new philosophy' but thanks Mikel Arteta for 'support'
ARSENAL forward Willian has explained why he has struggled for form at the Emirates after joining on a free transfer in August.
The 32-year-old has stated that he has found it hard adapting to a new club after leaving Chelsea, having spent seven years at Stamford Bridge.
Willian registered two assists on his debut for the North Londoners in the 3-0 away win against Fulham in the opening match of the season.
But since then he has provided just one assist, while he is still looking for his first goal after failing to find the back of the net in his 18 outings so far.
His poor form has led to criticism from fans and pundits, with Arsenal legend Tony Adams slamming the decision to hand him a three-year deal.
Commenting on why he has flattered to deceive, Willian told the club's official matchday programme ahead: "Well it's never easy changing club, especially after being somewhere for so long.
"I was at Chelsea for seven years before coming to Arsenal and then you have a new club, new people, a new philosophy.
"Things are different so I'm still adapting but I feel good, I have been learning a lot – a new footballing philosophy.
"Everyone is great here. I know I can improve a lot, and of course my performances on the pitch can be a lot better."
Before adding: "The first game was great for me, against Fulham, I felt I had a good performance and gave two assists. And then, I don't know.
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"I'm always trying to do my best, sometimes things don't go the way you want. You have to say it's a part of football and a part of life.
"Sometimes you have good moments, other times you have bad moments, you have to learn from that.
"And right now, I know I'm far away from being at my best, but I'm determined to work hard and change this."
Willian has also thanked Mikel Arteta for his support as he revealed the pair have spoken extensively throughout his difficult start to life at Arsenal.
He said: "Of course we talk about lots of things together, and I know I have his support.
"That's great for me, and to have the support of the club, so what I can do is always work hard, give my best in training to try to improve myself.
"This is the only way to get back to good performances."
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Blue Promise: The Power of Public Dialogue - Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas
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Blue Promise: The Power of Public Dialogue
America's health care system is far from perfect. It's complicated. It's expensive. It's broken in many ways. So why aren't more people talking about it? Evan Smith of The Texas Tribune joined us in the latest Blue Promise to discuss how public dialogue helps frame public policy.
[DAN]: America's health care system is far from perfect. It's complicated. It's expensive. It's broken in many ways. So why aren't there more people talking about it? Tune in to this blue promise to hear how public dialogue helps frame public policy around healthcare.
[DAN]: Thanks for tuning in to Blue Promise, I'm Dr. Dan McCoy and I'm the president of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas. We're filming today in Austin Texas in our office just across the street from The Capitol and we have a very special guest today CEO co-founder of the Texas Tribune Evan Smith. Thanks for joining us.
[EVAN]: Oh I'm so happy to be here. Thank you very much for having me.
[DAN]: Well before we get started tell people a little bit about the Texas Tribune.
[EVAN]: We're 10 years in business, doctor, which is amazing to think about we've been together talking about the world at the Capitol in the world and Texas for a long time it's hard to imagine it's 10 years as of this November we started because there was not enough coverage of public policy including health care policy and politics in Texas the number of reporters at the Capitol and around Texas is significantly down from what it was a generation ago the number of news organizations is down from what it was a generation ago. And yet the challenges we face as a state are more not fewer. They're more complex not less population's growing. And we made a decision to start the Tribune as a way to provide people with a reliable nonpartisan source of information that would allow them to be good citizens to know about the challenges that we face as a state and then as citizens to take ownership over those challenges because the public has largely for many years been checked out in Texas and the public absolutely needs to step up and check in.
[DAN]: Well I remember you've always been in evangelism, evangelist around kind of helping people engage in that dialogue. I remember the first time you shared this vision with me it was 10 years ago we met after work for a drink and honestly I thought you might be a little crazy.
[EVAN]: I thought.
[DAN]: It turned out like you thought it would turn out?
[EVAN]: I know no one is more surprised than I am after ten years that we've been successful on the fourth day that the Tribune was in business. That would've been about November the 6th of '09 I went home and my wife said "how's it going?" And I said "I think I may have to get a job." I'm really not sure this is going to work because look what we have built is something that does not and did not exist then does not exist now. We have raised 72 million dollars in 10 years to fund the operations of a serious public service journalism organization of a public interest newsroom from wealthy individuals and regular folks from institutional philanthropy foundations and corporate underwriters. This is something that we had no idea at the beginning would take hold. We had no idea that a business model would be as successful and as sustainable over the long term as it has proven to be. We had no idea that we would become a best practices laboratory for journalism all over the country where people are looking to us to develop the way to innovate and iterate and transform journalism and then they go back to their communities and they start versions of the Texas Tribune in Nevada or Mississippi or Northern California or New York City. We had no idea that we would change the way behavior is conducted at The Capitol where for a long time there was no accountability. Elected officials could do one thing one day and the exact opposite the next day promised to vote one way one day and then vote the opposite way the next day. We now have reporters on everybody at the Capitol at all times. We're keeping a watchful eye over people in power and taxpayer funded institutions without regard to party or partisanship or ideology. And I think that's the difference maker right there Doc is that it is nonpartisan journalism down the middle solves the riddle in tennis in journalism and in life.
[DAN]: Also, I would throw something at you, initially when you started it. When you start thinking about starting a news agency ten years ago.
[EVAN]: Right.
[DAN]: When most formal news agencies, no offense, were either consolidating going bankrupt.
[EVAN]: Oh hell, none taken. Are you kidding me? That's exactly...
[DAN]: People looked and said this is kind of crazy but you did have a very interesting philosophy and the philosophy was people needed to know.
[DAN]: Things were happening that people needed to know.
[EVAN]: Yeah this was always not about news it was about knowledge. It was not about journalism it was about information. I totally agree with you and it's about Texas and it's about our democracy. This is the part I'll tell you a story. So one of the early people we went to see to fund the Tribune somebody who we hoped would become a donor and has become a donor did at the time and has become one over time every single year is a biotech startup guy very very smart guy who has started three companies venture backed and has sold them all and gotten increasingly in a position to support good causes, let's just say, right over time. And so he was somebody I knew a little bit. My partner the venture capitalist John Thornton who at the time we started the Tribune he and I were going around to see various people in various cities to say we have this idea it's pretty audacious but we think we can provide more public interest journalism but we need support philanthropically to do this. We were traveling around to see various people well one time we land at the Four Seasons bar in Austin to see this biotech startup guy very smart guy who is pretty quiet. We sit down with him we meet for an hour he asked a couple of questions but really didn't do very much talking. We didn't have any sense of whether this interested him or not. And we talked a lot about of course what we were planning to do. And I had movie tickets for that night with my wife and at the hour mark. I needed to get up and leave and so I apologized. I said Listen I'm sorry to have to get up and go but we have movie tickets I appreciate you making time with us. I thought this was going nowhere. I stood up to shake his hand and he stood up to shake my hand and he said OK I'm in for a hundred. And there was a pause and I thought he was then going to say "dollars" and instead he said thousand. "Go save my democracy." That's what he said. That stuck with me. That was a real inflection point in the launch of the Tribune because I realized at that moment that this was really about our democracy not about journalism it's not about the news business it's not about trying to save the legacy news media it's about giving people the means to be more thoughtful and productive participants in our democracy by giving them as you said the information they need the knowledge they need to be better Texans and better Americans. When I realized it was about our democracy that's changed everything.
[DAN]: Well I have to tell you as a company we took the challenge, you, I don't know if you really understand the impact the Texas Tribune has had on us.
[EVAN]: Oh, go on tell. How long can we talk about we have three hours? Is this a three hour podcast? Go ahead.
[DAN]: I will tell you when three or four years ago we started looking around the state and realized there wasn't really a dialogue occurring around health care.
[DAN]: And a lot of the traditional players either dropped the ball or they hadn't moved into engaging these conversations through social media through town halls around the state. And so we then launched something we call the voice of Texas Health Care Initiative which one of them is Blue Promise which you're...
[DAN]: Participating on today and it's been exciting to see how people are becoming more knowledgeable about our issues which allows them to play a better part in that dialogue and decision making. What about the Texas Tribune? Have some success stories have come out of this you'd like to share?
[EVAN]: Well what I can tell you is that life is been for so many years of I've been on this earth about one way conversation and really in the last decade or more certainly in the time we've been in business it's become a two way conversation. The public wants to be brought into a conversation that they can participate in about the things that affect them. One of the things that I've been proudest that we've done over the years is forged a partnership with Blue Cross on events where we'll travel around to a big city or a small town with elected officials policymakers experts and we'll have a conversation about opioids or about mental health or about the gap in insurance coverage or about vaccines. You know we love to do conversations around different areas of health policy that affect real people. We go into communities and real people come out they listen to these people who are so well versed in this stuff smart about this stuff but then they want to ask questions themselves which of course they always get to do in the end. Blue Cross has been a leader maybe the leader in facilitating making it possible for us to travel around the state and do these conversations. So, that's a success story of sorts because I think you know but for the opportunity to talk about health care in places like Alpine, Houston, Abilene those communities would be poorer in knowledge and in informedness on, on those subjects. So I mean I think that's been a major component of our success. We do now between fifty and sixty in total events a year. So on average one a week or more per year and they're on a whole range of subjects. Course not all health care but a lot of them do touch on health care at least a little bit. And every time I'm with elected officials these days particularly after this eighty-fifth largest eighty-sixth pardon me legislative session and we talk about school finance reform which was a big component of the discussion of the agenda this last session and about property tax relief I remind elected officials whether it's in El Paso, Dallas, Austin, Houston, San Antonio. Every legislative session is the story of the work done. But it's also the story of the work not done and while public school finance and property tax got a lot of love from this legislature. Health care continues to be if not the largest percentage then darn near the largest percentage of the state all funds budget. And yet there was almost no discussion of health care during the session of a meaningful sort. As I was coming over here today, doctor, I saw that for the first time since the Affordable Care Act passed the uninsured rate in this country has started to tick back up for the first time. Last year the number of uninsured children specifically on the rolls that has started to go back up after a decade of that going down. What did our legislature do during this last session to address just those two challenges? The broad challenge of people not having access to coverage and specifically the most vulnerable people in our communities the uninsured children of Texas. What did the legislation do to address those things? Nothing. So one of the things I always say even in the events that are not specifically health care events is why didn't you talk more about health care. What did you do on health care? All around us are conservative states that have conservative state leaders who say we are acting on behalf of the conservative voters who elected us. We're not expanding Medicaid we're not looking at significant changes to health care but in those states the voters were able to get a Medicaid expansion on the ballot up or down and you know what they voted for it. So we assume that progress cannot be made in a conservative state with the conservative politics of the moment and maybe that's the case but it's worth having a conversation with elected officials about whether there is a another conversation to have than the one we've been having. Those events are the perfect venue to have that conversation and we appreciate the fact that you and others have made it possible.
[DAN]: I think what's interesting about those events Evan is that you clearly when you have them you educate the local audience you get local media attention. You'll learn some stories but it has to have a powerful effect on the editorial content of the Tribune. If you're talking in the Rio Grande Valley about border issues. It clearly has to come back and impact the people that are helping to frame the news.
[EVAN]: Well the first thing to know is that we consider our events to be journalism not that there's anything wrong with barbecue festivals and bridal shows and the sort of stuff that is typically put on by marketing departments of news or media organizations those have a place but our events from the very beginning very first event we did was in January of 2010 a couple of months after our launch with the then speaker of the House Joe Straus. Ever since that first event with Joe Straus all the way forward and up through today every one of our events has been an editorial event. They're editorial events so of course they have a connection back to our journalists. Now, do they necessarily produce stories on our site? We always publish the video. People can go back and watch the events if they're not there but do we necessarily publish stories? Not always. I would even say not often, but there are definitely times when we make news in those events.
[DAN]: I will tell you three years ago I would start to go out and give public events and one of the things I talked about were crazy billing stories.
[EVAN]: Yep.
[DAN]: So you know people would I would tell you, you know, we this is kind of the crazy billing story of the week. It's the three stitches sixty thousand dollar charge. And what was remarkable is that people would come up to me after the event and they would say "that happen to me." I mean "that happened to me." And it really started to kind of rain down on us that this was it. This was a state crisis.
[EVAN]: Yeah. And. But it's not just a state crisis. I mean I'd say that honestly it's a national crisis. I'm on the editorial advisory board of an organization called Kaiser Health News. This is a independent journalism organization that is an arm of the Kaiser Foundation and they have really been leaders in that specific story in talking about excessive medical billing and in partnership with NPR has often gotten stories on the air talking specifically about that issue. And you know what? Here's the thing about that kind of journalism. It takes a while. It's not always a first time or the second time or the third time but eventually it begins to penetrate the skulls of people in a capitol like ours or in an electorate like ours. Change happens from the ground up. It almost never happens from the top down. Real change. It is the public with pitchforks and torches marching on the capital when change happens. And so whether it's surprise building and the very specific case or a broader conversation about health care coverage and access to coverage and access to care because we have a dual problem in Texas we don't have enough coverage. We also don't have enough doctors enough medical facilities Texas among the many challenges we have in health care area. As you well know is that we have seen more rural hospitals close in Texas than any other state over the last decade. We have a genuine rural health care crisis. So it is the public getting activated and literally marching on the capital that gets action to take place. And it sometimes takes time for those things to penetrate the skulls of people in their busy lives. But it happens eventually it happens eventually.
[DAN]: Well we saw great success this session with Senate Bill 1264. And Kelly Hancock stepping in and putting a ban on surprise billing.
[EVAN]: Correct.
[DAN]: And actually Texas leading you know putting some protections in place against price gouging it always alarmed me that you could run away from a hurricane pull into a convenience store and purchase gasoline at ten or fifteen dollars a gallon. And the attorney general could act on that. But if you go into the emergency room in a medical emergency there's no protections for a consumer or a patient. So we did have some pretty cool legislation come out this session. We're hopeful that our work with Texas A&M on the partnership around rural health care and the moonshot.
[EVAN]: Yeah and Nancy Dickey at A&M is a particular leader on this and in fact one of the things we're going to do with the Texas Tribune Festival is have a conversation specifically around rural health. Sarah Jane Tribble from the aforementioned Kaiser Health News who has been a leader as much as they've let on the surprise building stuff, they've also led on their coverage of rural health around the country and she has been their principal reporter. She's coming in to lead a conversation that Nancy Dickey and a bunch of hospital folks from rural Texas are going to participate in.
[DAN]: Okay so these topics to me on health care I mean 'course I'm you know I lead a health care company.
[EVAN]: You're interested all the time the bomb.
[DAN]: I'm interested all the time but the question is why, what's the reason why we've seen a dwindling of the dialogue if you will in mainstream media and the conversation.
[EVAN]: Well I think that I don't want to speak for other news organizations having said that let me speak for other news organizations. I think that one of the challenges that the industry has right now is fewer resources to be deployed one editor of one big city newspaper in Texas recently said to me we used to be a newsroom of record. Now we're a newsroom of choice. The decline in the industry and the resources available human and financial have made it so that they can no longer cover everything they can only cover the things that they can cover and they can only cover the things that they elect to cover based on what they believe their readers want. And I will tell you as somebody who has spent 10 years and in fact all the years of Texas Monthly I'd say beyond those 10 years. Also in the serious journalism business. Sometimes the public wants serious journalism sometimes it knows it wants it. Sometimes it doesn't it know it wants it and sometimes it doesn't know it needs it. Sometimes in the journalism business you're in the business of giving people what they don't yet know they want or need. The easy answer is to never get to that point. The easy answer is to say well what they want is Dirk Nowitzki and Jose Altuve they want color weather maps and they want crime on your street and they want celebrities with six toes. You know they want stuff like that.
[DAN]: They don't talk about surprise billing necessarily.
[EVAN]: Forget about surprise billing, they didn't want to about real health care that I won't talk about the fact that we don't have enough coverage of insurance coverage out in the world so that people are going to emergency rooms at county hospitals with primary care needs and you're driving up everybody else's property taxes because those uncompensated care costs are being passed along to everybody. They don't wanna talk about any of that stuff is the assumption or read any of that stuff and so it's an easy out for news organizations to say well nobody cares about this stuff. So we're going to stop covering it. Where in fact the inverse is true. Nobody cares about it because you stop covering it. What is the job of journalism? It's many things it's the search for the truth and tell people what you found it's to hold people in power and taxpayer funded institutions accountable regardless of party or partisanship or ideology. But it is also to tee up for people in their busy lives things important enough to stop and pay attention to. If we tee them up, can't guarantee that they're gonna stop and pay attention. But there's a pretty good chance. What I can't guarantee you is that if we don't tee them up they absolutely will not pay attention to them. So they've stopped covering that stuff. They in the broad sense not us because they think among other things we don't have the resources to do it. And the audience is not there. As opposed to, we have a fiduciary responsibility with the community we serve and we're going to report on this stuff because it's important enough. Even if he can't make a buck off of it and the audience will materialize because we covered.
[DAN]: Okay. Speaking of teeing up the Texas Tribune Festival is coming up.
[EVAN]: It is?
[DAN]: And you've got a pretty phenomenal lineup.
[EVAN]: I should have been working on this!
[DAN]: People need to know about. So tell us a little bit about what you've got lined up.
[EVAN]: So the first thing I'll tell you is last year we had the most speakers we've had in the last year was the eighth annual festival. This is the ninth this year. So last year at the eighth annual festival we had about 350 people speak over the three days which was the most people ever. This year four hundred and sixty plus.
[DAN]: Speakers.
[EVAN]: Speakers over the three days. Last year I think we had somewhere in the vicinity of one hundred hourlong sessions over those three days we're up over one hundred and twenty five hour long sessions. Keeps thing keeps growing. It's like a snowball rolling downhill it's gonna crush all of us by the time it gets down to our level. Huge names from both parties politically both at the national level and at the state level huge experts on policy across the board. A lot of people from the national press because we always love to have a bunch of programs on the state of the intersection and complicated relationship between the press and politics. Bunch presidential candidates a lot of people running for Congress in both parties. Sitting officials from both parties from other states former officials from both parties from other states. And then a very conscious focus on the big topics that our legislature health care of course education immigration transportation criminal justice ethics the economy energy but also on the future of urban Texas the future of rural Texas the intersection of technology policy and democracy. The 2020 election cycle will be a focus of course as it always is. A lot of conversations around race at the moment because that's a big narrative through line. So I mean I'm. I love it. But of course I would love it right? I mean that doesn't surprise anybody.
[DAN]: But it still sounds like a spectacular lineup.
[EVAN]: Well you know it's a big effort to put together it takes a village. As everything good does it takes more than one person. I work a lot on it. I make the invitations to just about every single speaker personally but there's a whole team of people who make this festival happen it happens because of them.
[DAN]: Well you're making an invitation for the public to join you today and so.
[EVAN]: I'd like I'd love it if the public would come. You've go to Festival.TexasTribune.org. There's a ticket price for everybody at every level. If you're a student or an educator you get a pretty deep discount if you're in working in government or you work in a nonprofit organization. There's a deep discount available even if you have to pay the full freight for it it's still a bargain. And we'll have we think maybe 10000 people badged to attend this festival which would be a huge increase over last year which was our largest year ever we had about 7300.
[DAN]: And that's great.
[EVAN]: Downtown Austin.
[DAN]: Well thank you so much for all the Texas Tribune does. Thanks for being here today.
[EVAN]: Oh it's my pleasure.
[DAN]: As a sponsor of the Texas Tribune Festival we'll be there hosting the Women at the Tribfest Meetup, right here in this room across from the state capital. You can come together with some of the top women shaping politics business technology and public policy. Get the full details at Festival.TexasTribune.org. We'll also be recording upcoming episodes of our podcast that weekend in front of a live private audience so be sure to subscribe to Blue Promise whenever you listen to podcasts. Thanks for tuning into this episode.
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As a group of sales trainees took a break from our workshop on selling, the distress they were feeling, was clearly manifest in their intense discussions. It was obvious from their unrestrained conversations that the software being installed to track their sales performance was the reason for their anxiety. It was also evident from their negative comments, that many of these trainees had already given up on selling their company's services and that no amount of sales training could help them sell their firm's services. Our client, a large midwestern service firm, was willing to pay generous incentives for their customer service staff to up sell additional services. Yet, most participants in this training session felt, for a variety of reasons, that obtaining additional sales was impossible.
Jenny, a customer service representative from one of the inner-city offices of the firm was typical in her feelings about being asked to sell. She talked about how difficult it was to achieve sales success because of her location and the unique customer base she worked with daily. She said it would be impossible to achieve the sales success of coworkers in the more wealthy suburban locations-"so why even try?"
Jenny specifically talked about a coworker by the name of Arlene who had been exceptionally productive in producing sales over the last three months. Arlene worked at a branch in an upper middle class suburb. She had earned over half the incentive pool for her sales success, doubling her income. Jenny told the group, that she was sure she could do the same thing, if she could work in the suburbs like Arlene.
On meeting Arlene for the first time, you might surmise that her warm and friendly disposition produced her ongoing sales success. She has a great personality. As Jenny inferred, you might also feel, after visiting her office, that her location assisted in her phenomenal sales success. Her customers certainly have the money to invest in her products and services. However, to learn exactly what was behind Arlene's success, the firm's regional sales manager had her "shopped," (had someone act like a customer to check her performance). They also had her local manager observe her work for a few days to see if they could learn more about her success. On closer scrutiny, the sales manager learned that Arlene consistently used the selling process The $elling Edge®, Inc. had taught her in our workshops and our Self-Directed Learning reinforcement series. Along with Arlene's warmth, friendly personality and favorable location, it appeared that using our "selling process" was the major factor in her consistent sales success.
Because there were so many complaints about the unfair incentive and tracking system being implemented by the firm, the regional sales manager decided to run a test on his staff. He wanted to see if Jenny was correct in her assessment. Did the location of a branch dramatically impact an employee's ability to sell and earn additional income? Was it true that location alone determined the amount of incentive bonuses paid out? Overnight, this manager reassigned Arlene to Jenny's inner-city location. Jenny then took Arlene's place in the suburbs.
The first week after the transfer, Arlene's sales plummeted, possibly giving some credence to Jenny's theory. What few sales Jenny had been making also declined her first week in the suburbs. Since neither employee was familiar with their new customer base, these reductions in sales seemed in order. However, on checking the two representative's sales success on a weekly basis, the sales manager soon learned that location had little to do with sales or lack of success. As the weeks progressed, Arlene's sales began to steadily climb. After a month and a half in the inner-city location, her level of sales success was right back up to her production levels before her move to the inner-city. Jenny, on the other hand, over the test period, was never able to move her sales beyond what she had been doing before her move. Of course, she had an excuse for not performing well. Jenny told everyone that her sales were low because she had not had the time to get to know the customers in her new location.
Although Jenny had a pleasant personality and seemed to get along well with people, her new manager observed that she seemed unwilling to learn and then use any of the sales techniques taught in our workshops. When she was "shopped" during the test period, it was obvious that Jenny tried to use her personality to persuade her customers to buy from her. Not once did she move out from behind her desk to greet customers, nor did she shake their hand. She immediately got down to business, and failed to build rapport with the people she served. She preferred to be efficient and in turn was not at all effective in selling her firm's products and services. In short, Jenny did none of the things that would help her build the kind of customer relationships that regularly produced additional sales.
As the manager evaluated the results of the test, it became clear that Jenny's bad attitude about selling was at the heart of her poor sales record. Also, not learning and using the sales tools she had been given was the deciding factor in her lack of sales success. Arlene, on the other hand, had proven that an office location was not a major factor in the sales process for this firm.
On closer scrutiny, the regional sales manager found that a bad attitude about sales permeated the entire inner-city staff. To a person, they felt that they could not sell the customers they served, so they quit trying. While at the suburban location, everyone was upbeat about the new sales skills they had acquired from our workshop and used the methods to consistently sell their customers and earn more money while they generated more business for the firm.
As the regional sales manager looked into this attitude problem further, it became clear that the contrast in staff feelings about the consultative sales process they had been taught, primarily emanated from their respective managers. For the most part, Jenny only parroted back what she had heard her inner-city manager say about the selling process. On the other hand, Arlene's attitude about selling simply mirrored what flowed daily from her suburban manager.
VIRDEN J. THORNTON is the founder and President of The $elling Edge®, Inc. a firm specializing in sales, customer relations, and management training and development. Clients have included Sears Optical, Eastman Kodak, IBM, Deloitte & Touché, Bank One, Jefferson Pilot, and Wal-Mart to name a few. Virden is the author of Prospecting: The Key To Sales Success and the best selling Building & Closing the Sale, Fifty-Minute series books and Close That Sale, a video/audio tape series published by Crisp Publications, Inc. Menlo Park, California. He has also authored a Self-Directed Learning series of sales, coaching & team development, telemarketing, and personal productivity training guides.
Check out the listed books and manuals at http://www.TheSellingEdge.com/books1.htm Virden teaches for the Center For Professional Development, Texas Tech University at Lubbock, Texas and in the School Of Entrepreneurship, J. Willard And Alice S. Marriott School Of Management at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. You can contact Virden at: [email protected].
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Gladiator Computers APOCALYPSE Gaming PC Review
Posted on February 22, 2016 by John Williamson
Testing & Methodology
To test each system or notebook, we want to stress every component of the system to check stability and performance, giving us an idea as to why those particular components were picked for this particular system. We use a wide variety of applications to gain a broad spectrum of results for comparing diverse aspects of system performance.
Unless specifically stated, all games are running at maximum settings but any vendor-exclusive features such as TressFX or PhsyX have been disabled to make the results fair. There are some titles where the maximum preset can be altered further in regards to AA, AF, Tessellation, and Draw Distance. To allow our readers to make the most informed decision, any additional options will be clearly labelled in this section.
Acoustic dBA meter
AC "Killawatt" power meter
AIDA64 Engineer
HW-Monitor
Passmark PerformanceTest 8.0
PCMark 8
Prime95
Super PI
Unigine Heaven 4.0
PC Mark 8
The PCMark 8 Home benchmark includes workloads that reflect common tasks for a typical home user. These workloads have low computational requirements making PCMark 8 Home suitable for testing the performance of low-cost tablets, notebooks, and desktops. Home includes workloads for web browsing, writing, gaming, photo editing, and video chat. The results are combined to give a PCMark 8 Home score for your system. Download here.
3D Mark
The new 3DMark includes everything you need to benchmark your hardware. With three all new tests you can bench everything from smartphones and tablets, to notebooks and home PCs, to the latest high-end, multi-GPU gaming desktops. Download here.
Unigine Heaven
Heaven Benchmark with its current version 4.0 is a GPU-intensive benchmark that hammers graphics cards to the limits. This powerful tool can be effectively used to determine the stability of a GPU under extremely stressful conditions, as well as check the cooling system's potential under maximum heat output. It provides completely unbiased results and generates true in-game rendering workloads across all platforms, such as Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Download here.
Our GTA5 Benchmark is run on the standard benchmark with MSAA=Off, FXAA=On, Very High Preset, Advanced Graphics Disabled and the settings detailed below:
Metro: Last Light (formerly Metro 2034) is a first-person shooter and horror video game developed by Ukrainian studio 4A Games and published by Deep Silver for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It was released in May 2013. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic world and features a mixture of action-oriented and stealth gameplay. Metro: Last Light features technology which boasts new lighting effects and improved physics claimed to set a new graphical benchmark on the PC and consoles.
Very High Preset, AF=16x, Tessellation=Very High, SSAA=Off, PhysX=Off
In Tomb Raider, the player is confronted with a much younger Lara Croft who is shipwrecked and finds herself stranded on a mysterious island rife with danger, both natural and human. Tomb Raider is a demanding game offering up ultra quality textures, full DirectX 11 support, SSAA, FXAA, MSAA and AMD TressFX technology.
BioShock Infinite is the third and last game in the BioShock series. It is a first-person shooter video game developed by Irrational Games and published by 2K Games. BioShock Infinite supports dynamic shadows, post-processing, light shafts, ambient occlusion, object level of detail, Diffusion Depth of Detail, FOV adjustment controls and other advanced DirectX 11 features.
Cinebench is a widely respected benchmark for testing the performance of x86 CPUs. The program allows you to test single and multi-threaded performance as well as GPU performance by rendering with Open GL. Download here.
Super PI is a single threaded benchmark that calculates pi to a specific number of digits. Super PI is a single threaded benchmark ideal for testing pure, single threaded x87 floating point performance and while most of the computing market has shifted towards multithreaded applications and more modern instruction sets, Super PI still remains quite indicative of CPU capability in specific applications such as computer gaming. Download here.
AIDA64 Engineer Edition
AIDA64 Engineer is a streamlined Windows diagnostic and benchmarking software for engineers. It has unique capabilities to assess the performance of the processor, system memory, and disk drives. AIDA64 is compatible with all current 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows operating systems, including Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. Memory and cache benchmarks are available to analyze system RAM bandwidth and latency. Download here.
CrystalDiskMark is a portable storage drive benchmark utility that enables you to measure sequential and random read/write speeds on different block size data. CrystalDiskMark will work with any storage drives including hard drives, SSDs and USB flash drives. Download here.
Passmark
The PassMark Advanced Network Test (which is part of PerformanceTest) is designed to test the data transfer rate between two computers both of which must be running PerformanceTest. One of the computers must act as the server and will sit waiting for a connection. The other computer acts as a client. It connects to the server machine and sends data to it for the duration of the test. You can download a trial version of PerformanceTest from here.
The amount of noise produced by any computer is a vital consideration for most buyers, even gamers don't really want a noisy PC because less noise is always better. We use an acoustic dBA meter held 2 feet behind our test system at idle and under load to get the idle and load noise levels for the system. For idle we allow the system to sit at the Windows desktop, for load we let Unigine Heaven 4.0 and Prime95 to loop together – we take the acoustic measurements 5 minutes into both of these scenarios.
To test power consumption we measure the total system power draw during idle and load scenarios. For idle we allow the system to sit at the Windows desktop, for load we let Unigine Heaven 4.0 and Prime95 to loop together – we take the power measurements from the "Killawatt" AC power meter 5 minutes into both of these scenarios at the same point.
To test thermal performance we measure average CPU and GPU core temperatures during idle and load scenarios. For idle we allow the system to sit at the Windows desktop, for load we let Unigine Heaven 4.0 and Prime95 to loop together – we take the temperature measurements from within CPUID HWMonitor 5 minutes into both of these scenarios at the same point. For load we take the average of the maximum temperatures, for idle we take the average of the minimum temperatures.
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You are here » Convicts transported to Australia » Van Diemen's Land. » Eliza » 02 February 1831. » Barrett, Robert.
Convict name: Barrett, Robert.
Convicted at Wilts. Special Gaol Delivery for a term of 7 years. Free Pardon.
vessel: Eliza
Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/8, Page Number 10
Robert Barrett, one of 224 convicts transported on the Eliza, 02 February 1831.
Connected with Barrett, Robert.
Booth, Caroline.
Convicted at Middlesex Gaol Delivery on 30th June 1831 for a term of 7 years.
Transported by Pyramus (08 October 1831.).
Eyres, John.
Transported by Eliza (02 February 1831.).
Gillen, James.
Convicted at Kent Assizes for a term of life on 31 July 1830.
Transported by Larkins (11 June 1831.).
Haggin, John.
Convicted at Cumberland Gaol Delivery for a term of life on 14 August 1830.
Transported by Exmouth (03 March 1831.).
Horton, Charles.
Convicted at Berks Gaol Delivery for a term of 14 years on 27 December 1830. Conditional Pardon.
Transported by Eleanor (15 February 1831.).
Hutchinson, Joseph.
Convicted at Derby Assizes for a term of life on 16 March 1831.
Transported by Elizabeth (03 October 1831.).
James, Thomas.
Convicted at Kent Special Gaol Delivery for a term of life on 13 December 1830.
Transported by Camden (21 March 1831.).
Jones, John.
Convicted at Middlesex Gaol Delivery for a term of 14 years on 7 April, 1831.
Transported by Gilmore (31 October 1831.).
McOwen, James.
Convicted at Middlesex Gaol Delivery for a term of 7 years on 09 December 1830.
Transported by William Glen Anderson (31 May 1831.).
Miles, James.
Convicted at Bucks. Gaol Delivery for a term of 7 years on 10 January 1831. Free Pardon.
Transported by Proteus (12 April 1831.).
Milliner, Hannah.
Convicted at Gloucester Quarter Session on 28th June 1831 for a term of 7 years.
Newton, Maria.
Convicted at Kent Quarter Session for a term of 14 years on 05 April 1831.
Transported by Mary (09 June 1831.).
Nott, Ann.
Convicted at Devon (Plymouth Borough) Quarter Session for a term of 7 years on 04 May 1829.
Transported by Eliza (03 November 1829.).
Padfield, Robert.
Convicted at Somerset Assizes for a term of life on 29 March 1831.
Transported by Isabella (22 November 1831.).
Pimble, Thomas.
Convicted at Gibraltar Court Martial for a term of 14 years on 05 May 1831.
Transported by Asia (29 September 1831.).
Rhodes, Thomas.
Convicted at Lancaster Quarter Sessions for a term of 7 years on 12 July 1826.
Transported by Eliza (25 June 1828.).
Salisbury, Martha.
Convicted at Chester City Pleas of Crownmote for a term of 7 years.
Smith, Peter.
Convicted at Kent Assizes for a term of life on 17 March 1828.
Stewart, Quinton.
Convicted at Ayr Court of Justiciary for a term of 14 years on 15 September 1830.


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In Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us,1 author Avi Tuschman interprets political attitudes in terms of human evolutionary strategies. Conservatives have personalities that align with one set of strategies, and liberals have personalities that align with another. It is an intriguing analysis, but one to which I have a number of objections.
Human political orientation across space and time has an underlying logic defined by three clusters of measurable personality traits. These three clusters consist of varying attitudes toward tribalism, inequality, and different perceptions of human nature.
Tribalism breaks down into ethnocentrism… religiosity… and different levels of tolerance toward nonreproductive sexuality?
There are two opposing moral worldviews toward inequality; one is based on the principle of egalitarianism, and the other is based on hierarchy?
Some people see human nature as more cooperative, while others see it as more competitive.
Tuschman notes that liberals and conservatives differ in terms of the Big Five personality theory, which measures people on scales related to Openness, Conscientiousness, Agreeability, Extroversion, and Neuroticism. Relative to conservatives, liberals score higher on Openness and lower on Conscientiousness.
Tuschman believes that religiosity can be interpreted in these evolutionary terms.
… the key issues at stake, where politics intersects with religion, revolve around the relatedness of "the tribe"—that is, how successfully an ethnic group is reproducing, how much it mixes with other groups, and which resources accrue to which gene pools.
In particular, he says that greater religiosity is associated with more tribalism.
The more conservative and religious a Christian becomes, however, the force of tribalism often grows as well, just as it would within any other human being.
If war did have deep evolutionary roots… four propositions would be true: War would be a universal phenomenon among human societies; war would certainly occur among human groups living in the most primitive economic environments; nonhuman animals would engage in warlike behavior; and war would alter the fitness of groups… the last point, if it turns out to be true, would link war to the biology of tribalism.
Thus, he links conservative hawkishness to tribalism.
The second cluster that Tuschman discusses concerns tolerance for inequality and support for hierarchy. Conservatives tend to support hierarchy and to tolerate inequality. Liberals tend to hold the opposite views.
Knowing someone's birth order is even more useful than knowing their socio-economic status in predicting whether they believe in a just world.
People who believe that we live in a just world tend to take the conservative view that inequality is not a big problem. People who believe otherwise align with the liberal view that inequality is a major injustice.
The final cluster concerns whether one perceives human nature as basically competitive or basically altruistic. Tuschman says that conservatives take the competitive view, while liberals tend toward the altruistic view. In general, conservatives seem to be more anxious about threats. Tuschman notes a study that measured physiological responses to images of frightening subjects, such as large spiders.
The individuals who had a higher physiological response to the threatening images (i.e., the people who were more startled and therefore sweat more) were significantly more likely to have conservative attitudes… they tended to support capital punishment, patriotism, and the Iraq War.
Political candidates have huge incentives to be seen as superhuman altruists; these incentives magnify the potential for self-deception.
He cites evidence from an experiment in which groups were assigned randomly to high-powered and low-powered roles.
The students who had played the prime ministers answered these questions with significantly more moral hypocrisy. In other words, the powerful players thought it was all right to dodge taxes themselves, while judging other tax evaders harshly. The civil servants did the exact opposite: their attitudes regarding tax dodges were much more lenient toward others than toward themselves.
The hierarchy of Communist regimes presents an especially glaring moral hypocrisy… left-wing dictators must continue towing a leftist ideology that exalts egalitarianism. Doing so successfully is easier with self-deception… Yet, as philosopher Peter Singer points out, "What egalitarian revolution has not been betrayed by its leaders? And why do we dream that the next revolution will be any different?" The "dreaming" that Singer refers to suggests that utopian leftist followers are also self-deceived.
The extreme left promises egalitarian camaraderie for all peoples… In practice, however, Communist governments have oppressed minority groups… most persecution of minority groups under leftist dictatorships is not consistent with being a mere tactic to break down ethnocentrism and assimilate out-groups; rather, the politically dominant ethnicity of the dictator inevitably fares better than the oppressed minority groups.
Libertarians attach great significance to this hypocrisy and self-deception. We cringe when the language of altruism is appropriated by politicians whose "altruism" consists of spending other people's money. For Tuschman, hypocrisy and self-deception are a stain on the shirt of political morality. For libertarians, it's the whole shirt.
Tribalism involves conflict over which genetic, economic, and political resources are available to which populations. Egalitarian and hierarchical moralities justify the equal or the unequal distribution of resources, both within and between groups. And different forms of altruism describe people's tendencies to share or to horde [sic] resources under various circumstances.
Tuschman offers a naturalistic justification for accepting different political attitudes.
But evolution obviously didn't select for particular voting habits. We're here with the political orientations we have because our ancestors' personalities helped them survive and reproduce successfully over thousands of generations. Their political personalities were instrumental in the regulation of inbreeding and outbreeding. These dispositions helped them mediate biological conflicts between parents, offspring, and siblings. And their moral emotions also balanced various types of altruism against self-interest in countless social interactions. In some types of social or ecological environments, more extreme personality solutions proved fit. In most cases, moderate personality solutions proved fit. That's one reason why there are so many moderates among us. Another reason for moderates and flexibility is that environments change, so it wouldn't make sense for our genes to rigidly determine our personalities.
Tuschman understands that ideological tolerance may not be typical.
Conservatives want more conservatives in the world because greater numbers would boost their fitness: there would be more potential mates for themselves and their family members, more coreligionists to provide altruism, fewer immigrants of other ethnic groups to compete with for resources… Liberals would also benefit from more liberals in their population; greater secularism, sexual freedom, and more immigrants would break down reproductive barriers and expand mate choices for xenophiles. And more people would share an egalitarian approach to childrearing, have compatible views on gender equality between spouses, and practice a liberal code of altruism in society and between countries.
1. The empirical connection between personality and political behavior is not terribly strong.
Tuschman says that the correlation with political attitudes is stronger for personality measures than for wealth measures, but that is a low bar. Political scientists have found much more explanatory power in ethnicity, location (the blue coastal cities vs. "flyover country"), and marital status.
Consider, for example, the fact that Jews and blacks vote predominantly for liberal Democrats. According to Tuschman's model, this must mean that Jews and blacks are less ethnocentric than other voters (notwithstanding the apparent tribal solidarity of their voting behavior), as well as more Open and less Conscientious. That seems doubtful.
2. There is a pattern to the anecdotal illustrations that Tuschman uses. Somehow, conservatives always come across looking worse than liberals.
[researcher Paul] Sniderman asked his respondents whether they supported government guarantees of equal opportunity for blacks. 75 percent of college-educated liberals supported this legislation favoring African-Americans, compared with only 38 percent of college-educated conservatives.
With such a pronounced partisan contrast on race attitudes, it's no wonder that the 113th US Congress (2013-2015) has forty black Democrats and only one black Republican.
Not all the voting human primates felt the same way about America's lethal raiding of an enemy territory. Specifically, 77 percent of Republicans thought the Iraq surge was improving the situation, compared with only 28 percent of Democrats.
Note that the surge was a military operation that took place after the invasion of Iraq, and that its supporters argued that the surge would reduce factional violence among the Iraqis. Tuschman takes the view that Republicans saw the surge as a tribal "raid" of Iraq by America, and therefore for him it illustrates the ethnocentrism of conservatives. However, compare the surge in Iraq with the bombing mission undertaken under President Clinton during the war in Kosovo. Both missions were nominally undertaken to quell factional violence. I doubt that Tuschman would be as quick to leap to the conclusion that support for President Clinton's policies reflected ethnocentrism.
When Barack Obama ran for president on the liberal, Democratic ticket, he pledged to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, which was associated with coercive techniques. Although Obama signed an order to close the prison on the second day of his presidency, more conservative elements of the legislature prevented the transfer or release of the jail's inmates.
Thus the President was not responsible for keeping Guantanamo open. It was instead "more conservative elements" who forced him to retain the prison, notwithstanding his true beliefs.
Next, consider Tuschman's narrative of Chile.
Regimes on the far left view economic inequalities as highly unmerited and exploitative. Therefore, socialist and Communist states often expropriate property of wealthy individuals and their private corporations… the socialist government of Bolivian president Evo Morales has nationalized foreign-owned oil, gas, and electric companies to redistribute the wealth that they generate to the country's impoverished majority… Governments on the far right of the political spectrum, on the other hand, have had a much more positive attitude toward private property—along with the inequalities that it entails… During Allende's far-left government, the country nationalized many industrial and agricultural properties in the name of equality. However, a coup removed Allende from power in 1973 and installed the far-right military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990). One of Pinochet's key economic policies was the privatization of numerous state-owned enterprises, many of which Allende's government had previously nationalized. Economic inequality increased dramatically under Pinochet's authoritarian regime (as did the torture and political disappearances of dissidents)… Whether these measures contributed to the long-term economic growth known as the "miracle of Chile" has, predictably, been a controversial topic subject to much debate.
In short, the expropriation of property by leftist regimes is just an accidental result of their pursuit of equality. On the other hand the better economic performance under private enterprise was (at best) an accidental result of the rightist regime's pursuit of authoritarianism.
The leftist perspective described by Mao imputes an egalitarian ideal to the solidarity between siblings and others against a dominant father… The desire of the far left to equally redistribute private property to "the people" recalls the socialized nature of childhood property among siblings. Conversely, the political right's strong support for private property evokes respect for father's possessions, which remain "off limits" to children.
This paragraph humanizes Mao, one of the world's great murderers, while dismissing anyone who defends property rights as a rigid patriarch.
On the topic of great murderers, I give Tuschman credit for making me aware of the work of Barbara Harff.
To properly categorize these phenomena, Harff had to coin the word "politicide." Politicide refers to a mass murder where the perpetrators target their victims based on perceptions of their political orientation… the international community officially lacks the concept of politicide… between 1955 and 2001… Only 14 percent of the events were classified as pure genocides… fully 86 percent of the [mass killings] had a substantial ideological dimension beyond ethnic conflict.
However, Tuschman sees no reason to mention that politicide seems to be a particularly prevalent and virulent disease among leftist regimes.
Overall, the pattern is that for Tuschman, every evil of conservatives is essential, by which I mean that it follows directly from the conservative point of view. On the other hand, every evil of the left is accidental, meaning that it occurs in spite of what leftists believe.
The far left has decried self-interested capitalism as the root of all evil, and accused the right of celebrating self-interest by worshiping the god of free markets. The far right, on the other hand, has denounced socialist control of economies for impeding the pursuit of competition and sapping away motivation.
3. Tuschman is engaged in a reductionist exercise. Political attitudes are to be explained by personality traits.
In my view, this project ought to include at least one more layer in between attitudes and traits. The intermediate layer would be belief systems or ideologies.
Nobody says that they joined the Tea Party because they sweat when they see pictures of scary spiders. Instead, human beings provide reasons for their political preferences. Among those who are politically engaged, these reasons are expressed in terms of moral values and theories of how the world works.
For reductionism to be valid, either these explanations must be entirely phony (perhaps they are rationalizations of positions that were arrived at viscerally) or they must always reflect personality traits. In the latter instance, one can predict the response of person A to a particular argument based on A's personality.
My own book, The Three Languages of Politics,3 is about the differences among progressives, conservatives, and libertarians in the types of arguments to which they can relate: progressives appreciate arguments made in terms the conflict between the oppressors and the oppressed; conservatives appreciate arguments made in terms of the conflict between civilization and barbarism. Libertarians appreciate arguments made in terms of the conflict between freedom and coercion.
I did not explore the extent to which these differences might be correlated with personality traits. I find it plausible that conservatism is correlated with low Openness and high Concientiousness. I find it plausible that libertarianism is correlated with low Agreeableness. However, that does not reduce conservatism or libertarianism to nothing but the expression of such characteristics.
No matter what your own political orientation happens to be, step back and contemplate the ultimate causes of the diversity of personalities we live among. Try to understand those across the aisle not as na?ve or stupid or ignorant or evil, but rather on their own moral terms and also on nature's terms. Try to appreciate your own values in nature's terms.
Although he seems to be advocating having an open mind, his own mind strikes me as quite closed. He combines a lack of knowledge of (or interest in) genuine conservative ideas with an eagerness to get on with the project of explaining the evolutionary basis for the survival of conservatism as a pathology.
For many progressives, ideology is a "boo-word." Only those who disagree with progressives are ideologues. Progressivism is pragmatic and non-ideological in this narrative.
In contrast, libertarians are known for being systemetizers. That means that we care very much about the layer in between personality and political behavior that does not interest Tuschman, namely, the justifications for one's political outlook.
4. Finally, even on his own terms, Tuschman's discussion of the political implications of evolutionary psychology and group selection comes up short. Others who have looked at the topic are focused on the challenge of achieving cooperation among strangers.4 Tribal loyalty in these treatments is about more than endogamy. It is about mobilizing people to work toward a common goal.
I see tribalism as a key ingredient in human nature. Sports teams appeal to tribalism. Businesses (and units within businesses) motivate workers using tribal symbols and rituals. In fact, businesses attempt, in some cases successfully, to co-opt tribalism among consumers.
For more on these topics, see the EconTalk podcast episodes Kling on the Three Languages of Politics and Jonathan Haidt on the Righteous Mind.
Jonathan Haidt says that we are "90 percent chimp and 10 percent bee." Without tribalism, we might very well be 0 percent bee, with no ability whatsoever to work constructively in groups. Thus, I find it rather difficult to accept Tuschman's account of tribalism as a trait of conservatives but not of liberals. To me, the very survival of progressivism stands as proof that progressives are at least as successful as conservatives in mobilizing tribal dynamics.
The way I see it, progressives are more than willing to divide the world between in-groups and out-groups. Progressives are more than willing to use appearance, behavior, or cultural practices to signify out-groupness. Although progressives will not use the same criteria that conservatives use to separate in-groups and out-groups, progressives are at least as willing to subject the out-group to shunning or, for that matter, to politicide. Anyone who believes that, on the contrary, progressives are above tribalism, should be referred to Tuschman's chapter on self-deception.
Avi Tuschman, Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us. Prometheus Books (Amherst): 2013.
The Ideological Turing Test, by Bryan Caplan. EconLog, June 20, 2011.
Arnold Kling, The Three Languages of Politics. Amazon Digital Services, 2013.
See, for example, Paul Seabright, The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life or Ara Norenzayan, Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict.


The word balance may mean several different things in finance. The most common meaning refers to the remaining amount that a borrower owes. If, for example, a person or an entity borrows a certain sum from a lender, the balance will be the total amount of the loan minus all of the payments that have been made. This applies to all kinds of loans that are available in the market. It also applies to any kind of borrower, be it an individual, a group of individuals, or a company.
Balance may also refer to the amount of money available or left in an account. This is usually called an account balance, as compared to the loan balance defined in the previous paragraph. An account balance applies to all sorts of accounts, including 401(k) accounts, mutual funds accounts, and other familiar types of accounts.
How is the account balance calculated?
The figure is determined by deducting the debts or withdrawals from the credits or deposits. The resulting number is considered the account balance.
Depending on the kind of account, the balance may be either positive or negative. A positive balance may mean different things, again depending on the type of the account. For example, a positive balance for a credit card account means that the account owner owes the credit card company money. On the other hand, a positive balance for a savings account means that the owner of the account has money in the bank.


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Paignton runners do their bit for tree-planting charity
"After all, athletes are heavy users of oxygen, so trees do come in particularly useful!"
By Guy Henderson
MEMBERS of Paignton-based South Devon Athletic Club put the difficulties of a Covid-hit year behind them to make a generous donation to charity.
Each year the club chairman chooses a charity, and fundraising efforts are directed towards raising money for the chosen cause.
In 2020 chairman Colin Peters selected the Woodland Trust, the largest woodland conservation charity in the UK which has planted more than 43 million trees since 1972.
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A cheque for £345 was handed over before the club's annual Jingle Bell Jog, run in fancy dress as usual, but this year in socially-distanced groups of six.
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French Heavy Ambulance
In the last years of the 18th century all armies possessed a medical service, but they were basic in the extreme, and that included casualty evacuation. A rudimentary hospital was usually set up well to the rear, and only after the fighting was over would the business of moving and attending to the wounded commence. Jean Dominique Larrey (1766 - 1842), a talented surgeon and organiser, saw that this system meant many men died through the delay in treatment and conceived of a 'flying ambulance' which could keep pace with the army and provide evacuation and care of the wounded while the fighting continued (at the time the word ambulance meant the whole unit – men, tents and vehicles). In 1797 he travelled to the army in Italy at the request of its commander, Napoleon Bonaparte, and set up three divisions of his flying ambulances, each containing 113 men with 12 casualty evacuation vehicles and four store wagons. The use of purpose-designed evacuation vehicles was an important part of the concept, and these vehicles, later known themselves as ambulances, came in either light or heavy models, each division having eight of the former and four of the latter. Their success impressed Napoleon and the system was extended to the whole army, making the French medical service the envy of all other countries during the wars up to 1815.
The heavier, four-wheeled ambulance is the subject of this set. It was sprung, had sliding side doors as well as those at the rear and could accommodate four stretcher cases. This model depicts the vehicle accurately, and has very nicely included the springs which, since the plastic used is very soft, actually give the vehicle some real suspension! There are no internal details, and not even a floor for the cabin, but such things are not visible when the doors are closed. Since the sides of the vehicle are single pieces the doors are simply engraved on the surface, so there is no means of having any of the doors open. The undercarriage is inevitably simplified but looks good and is perfectly adequate, while the wheels are pretty well done too. Even the rear ladder has been included.
HaT have provided a team of two horses for each vehicle, which fits with Larrey's own description of them, but there is evidence to suggest four were also used, perhaps in certain terrains and when the horses were available, so we would have liked to have seen four provided in this set. Those that wish to have such a team will need to take the front pair from the set of HaT's French Ammunition Caisson, which is compatible. The lead horse has a rider who also appears in the sets of the caisson and the French Limber. He wears a uniform suitable for around 1807 to 1813. The horses themselves are not particularly realistic poses but will look OK to most people. The harness is again much like that in the earlier sets, and has been well done.
The soft plastic with which this product is made is not the ideal material and presents some challenges. Pegs are prone to bending when trying to force them into holes, and care has to be taken not to tear the plastic, especially when trimming. We found some holes needed enlarging slightly, and perhaps because of the softness some parts fit together adequately rather than tightly, but the end result is quite pleasing. The only real problem is with joining the horses to the vehicle. The front axle of the vehicle has a hole for the harness, but so too does the harness, so the customer has to fashion some sort of peg to join these two together or simply glue the pieces together (the plastic takes glue well).
Despite the difficulties this is a nice model of a vehicle the French soldier was very glad to see, wounded or not. At present the only set containing the necessary medical personnel is the now hard-to-find offering from Strelets, but we would hope that one day more might be made to match this interesting element of Napoleon's armies.
Strelets The French Army's Camp
"French Napoleonic Artillery" - Almark - Michael Head - 9780855240110